In 1924, Andrew "Sandy" Irvine joined George Mallory’s expedition to the world’s highest peak. Now, Irvine’s recently found ...

Remains found on Mount Everest may have belonged to the British climber Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine, who disappeared along ...

A documentary team discovered human remains on Mount Everest apparently belonging to a man who went missing while trying to summit the peak 100 years ago, National Geographic magazine reported Friday.

Mount Everest is 8,849 metres high, and rises about 250 metres above the next tallest peak in the Himalayas. However, it is ...

has challenged Mount Everest for the title of the world's highest mountain in a unique measurement. While Everest stands taller at 29,032 feet above sea level, Chimborazo's peak is 6,800 feet ...

A discovery on Mount Everest could help prove that a pair of climbers reached the world’s tallest summit almost 30 years ...

As glaciers melt at a greater pace, there are concerns among expedition operators that bodies are becoming exposed on Mount Everest ... view of the danger of the mountains. And for all climbs ...

Freshta Ibrahimi, born in Tehran and raised in Kabul, wants to show women in Afghanistan where they can stand.

Mount Everest is about 15 to 50 meters taller than it would otherwise be because of uplift caused by a nearby eroding river gorge, and continues to grow because of it.

Mount Everest ... tallest peak in the Himalayas. Everest is considered anomalously high for the mountain range, as the next three tallest peaks—K2, Kangchenjunga and Lhotse—all only differ ...

Mount Everest is ... the next tallest peak in the Himalayas. However, it is considered to be an anomaly, as the next three tallest peaks – K2, Kangchenjunga and Lhotse – all differ only ...